Matt Dearden's Flying Diaries Blog

A day in the life: Nabire Bush Pilot from IndoPilot on Vimeo. It’s taken me a while but here is my latest video showcasing some of the flying we do from the town of Nabire in Papua, Indonesia. It features...

Due to our continuing pilot shortage on the Pilatus fleet, I’ve had to pack up my bags and hit the road to cover some of our other bases and leave the comforts of Nabire behind for a couple of months....

After the last few weeks of travelling about on holiday, it’s nice to get back to the day job of flying the Porter in the mountains and jungles of Papua. It’s been great to see the reaction to the TV...

As we had very little flying going on in Nabire and our Wamena aircraft went tech due to a faulty artificial horizon, I flew our Nabire Porter across to Wamena for a few days to help cover whilst the engineers...

Other pilots here in Papua often ask me what’s the worst/scariest runway I land on and I always tell them it’s the Caravan and Twin Otter friendly airstrip at Ilaga. This is almost always met with a surprised look considering...

“You guys really should be in a TV show or something. Maybe like ‘Ice Pilots’ or ‘Flying Wild Alaska’ or something?” – comments I’ve been told many times over by various people who know what I do for a living....